Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replied the Catholic with the practiced ease of an end-man, "we believe that no one loses his soul who does not knowingly sin against the Light. With repentance, anyone will be saved if he follows the Light...
...that not even their creator herself can recall all of them. Little ladies, they usually begin without money. Life treats them roughly, and more than one of them has had to cope with the burden of bearing an illegitimate child. But they are never defiled by pitch; they always sin through kindness or trustfulness; they ultimately marry. They improve their minds by studying French, Italian, music, cooking. Model girls, they are just what Mrs. Norris' large, enthusiastic audience of older women, young stenographers, people of circumscribed life and mothers of young girls want-and would like...
...endless conversationalist, at her best when she takes off in a nonsensical plane of pretense. Her favorite jape is to pose as an abandoned woman who is living in sin with her author-husband, Charles G. ("Ceegee") Norris (Bread, Brass, Salt). This tomfoolery runs on & on, like a Chinese play, with "Kay" Norris ringing all the changes on her alleged state of total depravity...
Finally came the laugh-provoking quip for which the Rumanian Senators were waiting. They all understood juicy Jorga to be referring to ascetic Bachelor Julius Maniu when he crushingly concluded: "People who do not sin usually do not sin because they are not able...
...place in which to live." And today Founder-President McCarter often finds it difficult to understand why the State so often resents his efforts to improve it. Once this year he thundered: "The fad of the day is to imprint upon the brow of success the scarlet letter of sin...